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KCND-TV was a television station which broadcast from Pembina, North Dakota, USA from 1960 to 1975, targeting the Winnipeg, Canada market some 60 miles (100 kilometres) to the north. It was the forerunner of CKND-DT in Winnipeg, which remains in operation. KCND was established by the Community Radio Corporation, the parent company of KNOX-TV and KNOX AM in Grand Forks, N.D., after being granted a construction permit by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in July 1956.〔1959 Broadcasting Yearbook, p. B-62〕 The station's plans were publicly announced in early 1959, and KCND signed on November 7, 1960 on channel 12. The station's studios and master control system were located in Pembina, with Canadian sales and production facilities〔Winnipeg Free Press, Dec. 10, 1966, p. 33〕 being located at 2031 Portage Avenue in Winnipeg. ==History== Startup preparations for the station began in March 1959, at an estimated cost of $150,000 according to Community Radio Corporation partner Robert Lukkason. The station was initially expected to be a semi-satellite of KNOX-TV in Grand Forks (now defunct), but would have its own studios. KCND's original construction permit was based on plans to operate from a 310-foot (94-metre) tower with a power of 21,000 watts. However, this plan changed and one of the tallest broadcast towers in North America was constructed—1,450 feet—100 feet short of the height of the Empire State Building in New York City. The tower was located seven miles west of Pembina and less than a half-mile south of the Canada/U.S. border. The station initially operated at a power of 220,000 watts,〔Broadcasting, Vol. 61 No. 3 (July 17, 1961), p. 103〕 later increasing power to 288,000 watts.〔Broadcasting Yearbook 1966, p. A-40〕 According to the 1960 U.S. census, the population of Pembina the year KCND went on the air was a mere 625 people, making Pembina one of the smallest non-suburban municipalities in the U.S. to have its own TV station. KCND operated as a semi-independent station. It was affiliated with both NBC and ABC for periods, but was not compensated by the networks due to the station's insignificant U.S. audience and thus never showed all of either network's schedule. It carried NBC's ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' until Sept. 2, 1966, shortly before WDAZ-TV Devils Lake-Grand Forks signed on as a full-time NBC affiliate, with a signal that overlapped with much of KCND's U.S. viewing area. In 1962, KCND was acquired along with KNOX-TV Grand Forks and KXGO-TV Fargo for $675,200 by the Pembina Broadcasting Company, a group led by Ferris Traylor, the part-owner of an Indiana TV station.〔Broadcasting, Vol. 63, p. xlviii〕 In November 1963, KCND added an additional microwave relay path to Minneapolis via Fargo, to improve signal quality when the primary link was experiencing "network trouble". In addition to problems with the microwave relay system that forwarded network programming to the Pembina studio, KCND also suffered from spotty reception in Winnipeg, causing the station to struggle financially in its early years.〔Winnipeg Free Press, Oct. 2, 1981, p. 22〕 At one point, prior to the establishment of a city-wide cable TV system in Winnipeg, KCND resorted to giving away free rooftop aerials to Winnipeg residents.〔Winnipeg Free Press, July 8, 1967〕 In 1966, the McLendon Corporation of Dallas, Tex. purchased KCND from the Pembina Broadcasting Company.〔Ronald Garay, "Gordon McLendon: The Maverick of Radio". Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, p. 98.〕 McLendon would remain the station's owner until its assets were sold to Canwest Broadcasting in 1975. Around the time that WDAZ-TV went on air in early 1967, KCND lost its NBC affiliation. Thereafter, it carried about half of the ABC primetime lineup (which was in those days a distant third among the U.S. networks in the ratings) and showed low-budget syndicated programming (e.g., series like ''Felony Squad'' that had run for one or two seasons years earlier) and movies the rest of the time. The station produced a modest amount of local programming out of its U.S. and Canadian studios, including a breakfast program called ''Good Morning'', a midday current affairs show called ''Around the Country'', and a weekly hunting and fishing series called ''Fin and Feather''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KCND-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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